discussion Might be better than ninite

[Izerous]

Chocolatey looks to be basically the equivalent of a linux package manager for windows. I use brew/cask a lot on mac but I didn't realize there was a very promising looking windows alternative. While I really do like ninite and what it provides it's packages are limited and chocolatey appears to have a lot more content.

Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows

Chocolatey is software management automation for Windows that wraps installers, executables, zips, and scripts into compiled packages. Chocolatey integrates w/SCCM, Puppet, Chef, etc. Chocolatey is trusted by businesses to manage software deployments.

chocolatey.org

Edit: Looks like it has been around for years but not something I recall ever coming across

 

[gingerbee]

Chocolatey has been around for quite a while, I am pretty sure several people here use it, I haven't needed it Ninite does what I need, there are several useful tools in this video so I call it a good watch

 

[bojangles]

I never knew there was a GUI client for Chocolatey. That makes it even more attractive because I hate CLI sometimes lol

 

[JD]

winget is built into Windows 11 (I think in Windows 10 too maybe? or you had to install it?) - https://aka.ms/winget-command-help. It has a pretty vast repository too.

 

[Shadowarez]

I use both but chocoley is used when I use the tool Chris Titus win debloater from within PowerShell to clear up windows nonsense.